On 2025-06-16 18:16, Adler, Mark wrote:
for the NEWS I would just say “a well-formed streamed zip file.”
Thanks for checking NEWS. I installed the attached.
By the way, in experimenting with Info-ZIP’s zip, I noticed that it likes to
put a Zip64 extra field in the local header even when it's not needed. I will
provide a patch to gzip to process the Zip64 extra field, to replace the
current “unsupported” error message.
Thanks for volunteering!
From 386f4fa1112b6554772e8c2cca0d77d984f58e1c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2025 08:51:33 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] gzip: fix NEWS
* NEWS: Fix as per <https://bugs.gnu.org/78799#38>.
---
NEWS | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 6cca400..b480dea 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ GNU gzip NEWS -*- outline -*-
** Bug fixes
gzip -d no longer rejects PKZIP signatures, local header, and data
- descriptors. These can appear in well-formed albeit unusual pigz output.
+ descriptors. These can appear in well-formed streamed zip files.
[bug present since the beginning]
A use of uninitialized memory on some malformed inputs has been fixed.
--
2.48.1
